1. POETRY…WORDS IN MOTION
Poetry is painting pictures with words…it is whatever you want it to be.

2. Sound Effects Onomatopoeia – buzz, zoom, crack, sizzle
Using sound devices in poetry turns an ordinary poem into a musical delight!
Onomatopoeia – buzz, zoom, crack, sizzle
Rhyming – follow a rhyming pattern
A young boy found an old shoe
He wondered just what he should do
Alliteration – starting words with the same sound
Many days Mary marveled at the monkeys.
Repetition – repeat words or phrases for effect or to make a point! The highway man went riding, riding, riding…

3. SUPER SENSORY
Descriptive poems tickle your senses, send smells up your nostrils, clap noises in your eardrums, run texture over your fingertips, and paint settings before your eyes.
You must know how it feels to stand knee deep on the beach, as wet sand gushes between your toes in order to compose it in a poem. Poems that capture sensory elements stick in a reader's mind and flow easily across the page as the reader scans your words.

4. The Beach
It's a day when the ocean waves whisper to the sun: 'Warm me up sunshine!' And the sun tries to throw its rays right at me, painting my white skin into a golden shimmery tan. The fingertip of the salty smelling wind brushes against my left cheek. The clouds try hard not to move. I see them crawling inch by inch.

5. I Look down at my feet; and the hot pink nail polish; sinks into the warm sand the grains squish between my toes Rough. I gaze out into the crystal water shining like cherry-flavored lip gloss and diamonds held in a blue blanket. I lean back into the pinkbluepurple of the wind, where it leaves goose bumps on my arm and I feel as if I could blow away at any time…

6. Poems that follow a certain style!
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Poems that follow a certain style!
Haiku – 5 7 5
Tanka –
Cinquain – Five lines with specific words
Diamante – Seven lines with specific words
Limerick – Follows AABBA
rhyme pattern

7. On the billowy clouds high (7)
HAIKU
Drifting silently (5)
On the billowy clouds high (7)
Above the sunlight (5)

8. HAIKU Falling to the ground, I watch a leaf settle down
In a bed of brown
Sand scatters the beach
Waves crash on the sandy shore
Blue water shimmers

9. TANKA Summer time is here (5) Waiting for me to have fun (7)
In the wind and waves (5)
Sitting on the lovely beach (7)
Sipping soda pop with lime (7)

10. TANKA Beautiful mountains Rivers with cold, cold water.
White cold snow on rocks
Trees over the place with frost
White sparkly snow everywhere.

11. Cinquain
Cinquain ("cin-kain“ - a French word for five) usually follows this organization:
Line 1: a one-word line, a noun, that gives the poem its title
Line 2: two adjectives that describes what the poem is about
Line 3: three action -ing verbs that describe something the subject of the poem does
Line 4: a phrase that indicates a feeling related to the subject of the poem
Line 5: a one-word line, noun, that sums up what the poem is about, renaming it
Penguin
Black, white
Waddling, swimming, leaping
A tuxedo in the cold water
Emperor

12. Cinquain Spaghetti Messy, spicy Slurping, sliding, falling
Between my plate and mouth
Delicious
Mules
Stubborn, unmoving
Braying, kicking, resisting
Not wanting to listen
People

13. Diamante
Named for its shape. This 7 line poem will form a diamond if done properly.
1.Noun: subject of poem
2. Two adjectives describing your subject
3. Three participles (ing verbs) that describe the subject
4. Four nouns: two related to the subject and the second two related to the opposite of the original subject.
5. Three participles describing the opposite subject (see line seven below)
6. Two adjectives describing your opposite subject
7. Opposite of the top line subject
Peace
Tranquil, Quiet
Relaxing, Growing, Hoping
Knowledge, Strength, Hatred, Anger
Fighting, Killing, Decaying
Raw, Primitive
War

14. Diamante Fireball Brilliant, beautiful Flashing, shining, dashing
Bright, wondrous, black, nothing
Staring, hoping, missing
Deep, quiet
Darkness.

15. LIMERICK There was an old man from Peru, (A)
These five line poems are often funny or nonsensical.
They typically start with “There once was a…” or “There was a…”
They follow the rhyming pattern AABBA – meaning the first, second, and fifth lines end with the same sound, while the third and fourth lines end the same as well.
There was an old man from Peru, (A)
who dreamed he was eating his shoe. (A)
He awoke in the night (B)
with a terrible fright, (B)
and found out that it was quite true. (A)

16. LIMERICK There once was a fellow named Tim
whose dad never taught him to swim.
He fell off a dock
and sunk like a rock.
And that was the end of him.
There once was a girl named Jill
who was scared by the sight of a drill.
She brushed every day
so her dentist would say,
“Your teeth are so perfect; no bill.”

17. Shape Poem The poem takes the shape of the subject of the poem.
Choose a simple shape.
Think of words that describe your subject and write simple phrases about your topic.
You can repeat the lines over and over.

18. Shape Poem
You may either use your words as the outline, or fill the shape in.